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Jan 26
Raspberry Pi Update
Jan 22
My adventure with the Raspberry Pi
I just finished a detailed write-up on getting FreeRDP compiled on the Raspberry Pi. I came across a lot of sites with comments requesting how to do it, but no real in depth information on how to do it. I spent a few days figuring it all out. I even got a rudimentary GUI to …
May 23
Data Recovery: What I had to do to recover data from a RAID 0 volume.
I recently was called upon to perform a data recovery on an HP desktop that was setup with a RAID 0 volume. As you can imagine the volume failed when one of the hard drives started acting up. I had to resort to all my old tricks and some new ones in order to …
May 07
Open Source Firewalls: Monowall and PfSense
Today I want to talk about my two favorite Open Source firwalls; Monowall and PfSense. If you’re into Open Source at all, you’ve probably come across Monowall and PfSense. I personally love Monowall. It’s small and fast. If you put it on really nice hardware, you will have great …
Apr 06
NTOP A Linux Netflow Collector
This week I had a customer who requested that the App Flow Monitor function be activated on his Sonicwall Firewall. This was simple enough and required a reboot. I then noticed that the Sonicwall could contain the data locally or can send the data to an external Netflow Collector. My curiosity being piqued, I …
Mar 23
Main Mission Statement for Site
My main goal with setting up this blog is to share my insights and discoveries in computing. These include my experimental setups surrounding Linux and my professional experiences with Data Center Systems (SANs, VMWare, SQL Clusters, etc.). Over the next few weeks, I’ll begin to document my attempts to build a Linux-HA system utilizing different …